Monthly Archives: December 2011

Spec Ops: The Line’s got a new gameplay trailer, again showing a crumbling Dubai. Get the video below the break.

The Yager shooter launches on PS3, 360 and PC next spring.

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A new splash page has appeared this morning, teasing what appears to be the next game from Binary Domain creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and Yakuza Studio. And that’s pretty much it. All we know is it’s something called “Project A.” Besides Binary Domain, Nagoshi and his team are also working on Yakuza: Black Panther 2 for PSP and Yakuza 5 for PS3. We’re going long and saying this is for Y5. There’s a reason the Yakuza website is mentioned but not Binary Domain, right?

Thanks, AGB.

SOE’s begun sign-ups for Planetside 2 ahead of a planned testing period expected at some point next year. In order to sign up for the beta, you will need an SOE account. Get to it over on the game’s newly-revamped website, soldier.

The MMOFPS currently goes without a date. Thanks, RPS.

YouTube’s announced that Machinima was the highest-viewed channel on its website this year. The company provides machinima videos as its speciality – naturally – but also publishes video news wraps and trailers. It also hosts the Inside Gaming Awards, held the evening before Spike’s Video Game Awards. The second biggest channel besides Machinima was IGN‘s.

Thanks, Yahoo.

Sony’s announced it’s to keep open the closed beta of Starhawk throughout Christmas before closing it once and for all on January 3. The Lightbox and Sony Santa Monica effort will then go into open beta, with dates for its launch to come in the “next few weeks,” Sony Santa Monica producer Harvard Bonin said on the EU PS Blog. Players can gain access to the open tester with codes that came with their copy of Uncharted 3.

Starhawk launches next year for PS3.

This is not a guide to what you should buy these holidays. It’s not a suggestion that you should fall in with our holiday traditions. It’s just an itemised account of our deep, deep greed.

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The developers of such world-renowned titles as “Try Not to Fart,” and “Why Did I Buy This?” have released an all-new game with a much more somber tone. It’s called “Homeless” and stars a panhandler begging for spare change. Video after the break. More »

You may not have heard of Zenonia, but it’s a fav-rave on the iPhone, especially in South Korea where its creators hail from. Over the past few years the series has been one of the most consistently solid action RPGs on the system, and that alone has garnered it a loyal fanbase. More »

One of the all-time classic Mega Man games has now released on the iPhone. But it wont come cheap. Far from the iPhone average of $0.99/69p, Mega Man X will currently set you back $4.99.

Moreover, the game is laden with a littany of microtransactions, though none seem to impede gameplay. They’re more bonuses like assorted background music and cheat codes. So far user reviews seem to be quite positive, so if you’re a Mega Man fan this little nugget of nostalgia just might be worth it.

Via MTV Multiplayer.

The deals have been dropping left and right today, but we’re especially excited to pick up some of the latest Square Enix iOS games in their half off sale starting today and running until January 4.

Unfortunately, there’s a giant, glaring omission right now since Chrono Trigger is not on the list. However, all of the Chaos Rings games, Groove Coaster, and the Final Fantasy games are there so it’s still a great showing. Proceed beyond the break for the full list. More »

Microsoft announced the next two games to be discounted in its “12 Days of Xbox Live Deals” promotion running this holiday season. Unfortunately, you wont be seeing anything as awesome as half-off Bastion again.

This week Kinect games are the star with Hole in the Wall and Leedmess. Both of which have been slammed by critics as genuinely awful experiences. No word yet on why this promotion is called “12 Days of Xbox Deals” instead of “12 Days of Xmas”.

Via Official Xbox Magazine.

Just Dance 3 isn’t all that popular in hardcore gaming circles so you’ll be excused for not noticing it before, but you should know that the game is incredibly popular. Two days ago it was announced that even though it launched over two months ago, Just Dance 3 for Wii was still the best selling single-platform game in the UK. Which beat out all the individual platforms of Skyrim, though not all of Skyrim’s sales together.

Just how popular is it? Ubisoft announced today that Just Dance 3 has 8.4 million players. Which, they’d like us to know, is equivalent to 84 bonaroo festivals. They added that on a given day about 17 years of Just Dance 3 is played.

Via Destructoid.

It’s the annual mega-sale season, and it’s definitely kicking up quite a bit. Earlier we covered EA’s big iOS sale, and now Capcom has announced a big sale on the PlayStation network covering a huge amount of their games and DLC. More »

Wargaming.net, the developer behind the (apparently) hit MMO, World of Tanks, announced today that its community had hit a massive 18 million registrants. Now, as you’ve probably already guessed, that does not mean they have 18 million players, or even “active” registrants.

It simply means that 18 million people have registered to play the game. However, for a niche MMO that isn’t getting a lot of coverage in the press, it’s success seems as unstoppable as…well a tank. Wargaming.net has not disclosed where its players are coming from which could be interesting, as World of Tanks was initially released in Russia.

Via Blues News.

Over its brief life span the Humble Indie Bundle has brought PC gamers some of the best deals in recorded PC gaming history. Now in its fourth incarnation, the HIB4 is digging deep for new levels of awesomeness, and somehow they managed it.

Buying the HIB4 for more than the average price paid by others ($5.17 as of this writing) not only gets you the original five games (Jamestown, Bit Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, Shank, and Nightsky HD) as well as the two original bonus games (Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+) but will now earn you yet another five games: Crayon Physics Deluxe, And Yet It Moves, Hammerfight, VVVVVV, and Cogs.

Via Humble Indie Bundle.

EA’s announced this evening it’s delaying the release of SSX, as well as releasing the first proper gameplay trailer from the snowboarding epic.

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The latest episode of Telltale Games’ adventure game based on the Jurassic Park series is now available on the iPad. The second part of the episodic series is available exclusively for the iPad, and will set you back $6.99.

The episode is called The Cavalry. “In Jurassic Park: The Game’s second episode “The Calvary”, Nima, Gerry and Jess head for the island’s coast and are forced into taking a shortcut using the under construction “Bone Shaker”, a partially completed rollercoaster in Jurassic Park’s theme park area. Meanwhile, an InGen rescue team lead by ex-grunt Billy Yoder and his quiet, menacing buddy-in-arms Oscar search for Gerry and his daughter,” Telltale said today.

Via CVG.

Playdead Studios announced today that the Mac version of their highly-celebrated platformer, Limbo, is now available on the Mac App Store, fulfilling a promise they had made that the game would ship “by the end of the year.” Which is cutting it close to say the least.

However, those who are looking to get the game via Steam will have to wait a little while longer. Limbo has been slightly delayed on that platform until January 13. The reason for the delay was not disclosed. Now if we could just get an iPad version.

Via Joystiq.

EA has announced that its (seemingly quad-annual) mega-holiday sale has been activated on the App Store. iOS gamers will be able to find nearly the entire EA catalog of games for $0.99 or 69p.

The list is much too big to link all of them here, but simply type “EA” into the App Store’s search bar and you’ll be beset by a deluge of awesome gaming opportunities. If you’ve been looking to pick up a new Madden, FIFA, Scrabble, The Sims, C&C, Mirror’s Edge, or Dead Space game now’s the time.

Via Pocket Gamer.

Microsoft’s announced its upcoming keynote at CES next month will be the final one from the company.

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